Chemistry
Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Peter Mitchell
Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1979

Henry J. Eyring
USA
USAMexican-American chemist

Johann Rudolph Glauber
Germany
GermanyGerman alchemist, chemist, apothecary and physician.

Friedrich Bergius
Germany
GermanyChemist

Raimond Davis
USA
USAAmerican chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

August-Vilhelm Hofmann
Germany
GermanyGerman organic chemist.

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss chemist who discovered ytterbium

Hermann Emil Fischer
Germany
GermanyGerman organic chemist

Vladimir Prelog
Switzerland
SwitzerlandChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1975 (jointly with D. Cornforth).

Anry Le Chatelier
France
FranceFrench physicist and chemist.

Otto Diels
Germany
GermanyChemist

John Kendrew
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist, specialist in molecular biology,

Adolf fon Bayer
Germany
GermanyChemist

Edward Kendall
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1950, jointly with Philip Hench and Thaddeus Reichstein

Edward Kelley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mystic, alchemist and adventurer

Iogann Faust
Germany
GermanyDoctor, warlock, who lived in the first half of the 16th century. in Germany.

Charles K. Bliss
Australia
AustraliaSemiotics specialist

Richard Synge
Great Britain
Great BritainChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 (jointly with A. Martin).

Julius Lothar Meyer
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Giulio Natta
Italy
ItalyNobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 (together with K. Ziegler).

Friedrich Wohler
Germany
GermanyFamous German chemist

Ernst Boris Chain
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist

Richard Smalley
USA
USAChemist, Nobel laureate in 1996

Frederick Sanger
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist, the only scientist to twice win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Gilbert Lewis
USA
USAOutstanding American physical chemist.

Ada Yonath
Israel
IsraelIsraeli crystallographer, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Geoffrey Wilkinson
Great Britain
Great BritainChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1973 (together with E. Fisher).

Pol Berg
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry

Antoine-Jerome Balard
France
FranceFrench chemist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences

Sergey Andronati
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian bioorganic scientist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Harry Coover
USA
USAAmerican chemist, inventor of Superglue

Ernst Otto Fisher
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973

Jacobus Vant-Hoff
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1901)

Max Ferdinand Perutz
Great Britain
Great BritainChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1962 (shared with D. Kendrew)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish biochemist

Gustav Giemsa
Germany
GermanyHe is known for creating a solution used in the Romanovsky-Giemsa staining process.

Bernard Vonnegut
USA
USAAmerican meteorologist and chemist, professor of meteorology, inventor

Carl Auer Welsbach
Austria
AustriaAustrian chemist

Tadeusz Reichstein
Poland
PolandSwiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

Karl Bosh
Germany
GermanyChemist

John Hogward Northrop
USA
USAChemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1946, shared with Wendell M. Stanley and James B. Sumner

Gerhard Shrader
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist.

Arne Tiselius
Sweden
SwedenChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1948.

Paul Flory
USA
USANobel Prize in Chemistry 1974

Ilmar Koppel
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

Ricardo Wolf
Germany
GermanyChemist, inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, diplomat.

Mary Engle Pennington
USA
USAAmerican bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer

Kuzma Andrianov
Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Nikolay Menshutkin
Russia
RussiaRussian chemist.